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0: Meet Polly Mertens and Samantha Pruitt: The Stories Behind Everyday Awesome · The Everyday Awesome Project

• 0:28
  Speaker 1: Hey, superstars, this is Polly.
• 0:31
  Speaker 2: Hello, beautiful humans, and this is Sam.
• 0:33
  Speaker 2: What are we doing here today, girl?
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: Over welcoming anyone listening to the everyday awesome project for the first time.
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: I guess that means you listener.
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: Yes, our newest friend.
• 0:45
  Speaker 2: Somehow they found us.
• 0:46
  Speaker 2: Yes, greetings, that's cool.
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: So in this episode we are talking about us, who we are, who we are, the, how we met, what is team awesome.
• 0:57
  Speaker 2: Who are we, our mission, why are we doing this Exactly?
• 1:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, some people will be interested in learning a little bit more about us and this journey, and then we'll invite them along for the ride.
• 1:07
  Speaker 1: So to get us started, my dear, let's get started.
• 1:09
  Speaker 1: Who is Samantha Pruitt?
• 1:13
  Speaker 2: Who is she?
• 1:14
  Speaker 2: Indeed, I'm still on the journey of figuring that out.
• 1:17
  Speaker 2: However, I've gotten a lot better at understanding myself over the years.
• 1:22
  Speaker 2: Thankfully, some of you might already know me, from my ex-couch potato to Iron Woman Journey.
• 1:28
  Speaker 2: Some maybe got on the ride later with me which was Iron Woman to Ultra Woman Journey.
• 1:35
  Speaker 2: But the quick and dirty of that is I had a mental and health crisis just at about 30 years of age and slowly, in that complete breakdown, I rebuilt my life, my career, my body and eventually my mind beyond its limiting beliefs.
• 1:55
  Speaker 2: So a little bit about me is I was born of immigrants, so risk taking is in my blood.
• 2:03
  Speaker 2: I've had eight businesses.
• 2:05
  Speaker 2: I've lived in over a dozen different places, including a little bit of van life during the pandemic with my husband Came and went.
• 2:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and also a mother, a wife, a nana, a sister, a coach, a mentor and a lady boss.
• 2:19
  Speaker 2: Now, 25 years, hard earned years later, within the endurance, sports lifestyle and experience I have coaching, health and fitness, the empowered mindset creating experiences for thousands and thousands of humans to build their own best bodies and brains.
• 2:40
  Speaker 2: I think I've learned just a few things, indeed, and it's time to share them.
• 2:44
  Speaker 2: I've accomplished a lot of things that I'm very proud of, and I've failed greatly.
• 2:49
  Speaker 2: Many things I'm also proud of.
• 2:51
  Speaker 2: I repeatedly hit the bottom and rebuilt.
• 2:56
  Speaker 2: I've dusted myself off many, many times and kept going, and I stay in it because I understand my own value and I understand the value I have to contribute to humanity, and that's why I'm here.
• 3:11
  Speaker 1: And I think of you, some of what people maybe don't know about you today like some of the let's say, the tactical things, because on anybody that quote knows you on social media and follows you and things like that.
• 3:24
  Speaker 1: You're out tromping around mountains and things like that, but you also behind the scenes you're helping other people and businesses and projects.
• 3:34
  Speaker 2: Yes, I love it.
• 3:35
  Speaker 1: Just give people a taste of maybe some of the projects you've done in the last 12 months or something, just so they can know.
• 3:40
  Speaker 1: Oh, like she's not only running 100 miles on New Years and whatever your ultra was, you had the summer and those types of things.
• 3:50
  Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean, those are things I do as physical challenges for myself in my journey of building this body, this life and this brain that I want and deserve.
• 4:01
  Speaker 2: But definitely well, even after 50, really, I doubled down on what I had already discovered as my purpose, which is helping other people experience similar things, transform their own lives in whatever capacity they want to get up to.
• 4:18
  Speaker 2: So I do do that quite a bit with businesses, groups, organizations, and I've also done it with hundreds of individuals.
• 4:25
  Speaker 2: So working within businesses is one of the things I love to do.
• 4:31
  Speaker 2: So, like I said, I've had eight businesses myself.
• 4:33
  Speaker 2: I've learned a lot of things.
• 4:34
  Speaker 2: Sometimes they've been amazing, Sometimes they've been horrible, but in those learnings there's so much value there that I feel like I can add to other people going through the process of either building a small or medium-sized business or expanding business, buying a business, selling a business, creating a dream that maybe they have for themselves to be self-employed, to be an entrepreneur that whole journey.
• 4:59
  Speaker 2: I have a lot of experience and so I love working with those kind of people who are up to the same thing the team thing I love so much.
• 5:08
  Speaker 1: What did you say?
• 5:09
  Speaker 2: Because I was a late bro.
• 5:12
  Speaker 1: Because one of the things that I just want to highlight and that I see you and when we connect offline and off mic and stuff, is when you are working with the entrepreneurs that come to you and seek out your business, consulting and coaching either them and their life or the teams and stuff like that is.
• 5:30
  Speaker 1: you get humans and one thing I just want to I love them Well, and it's one thing to love people, but it's another thing to know how to interact.
• 5:40
  Speaker 1: And one thing that really attracted me, and we'll go into our story of how we met.
• 5:44
  Speaker 1: but I got to see you first hand leading your own teams inside when I interact.
• 5:51
  Speaker 1: So I've interacted with a lot of businesses.
• 5:53
  Speaker 1: We all buy a lot of things, do a lot of things, whatever, and I've been a student of business myself for a long time.
• 5:57
  Speaker 1: When I stepped into the race slow culture, which is the business you owned years ago, and I just saw the fun people were having, the lack of just there was no bureaucracy, it was empowerment, empowerment, empowerment.
• 6:13
  Speaker 1: We've got a job to do here.
• 6:14
  Speaker 1: People, we're serving these humans and I was like there's got to be a queen bee at the top that is empowering all these people and it comes from the top.
• 6:26
  Speaker 1: And so when I got to know you, I just want to make sure that you give yourself a little praise, like how you lead teams and built those teams, and I don't know if you want to talk a little bit about that, but you were talking about your team coaching and team building but, it's a core, core skill, but just like talent and what makes you you.
• 6:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that was an amazing, amazing journey because within that, of course, we you know, I had myself, but then there was a management team that I developed and worked with the most extraordinary humans answering their own purpose within the purpose of the organization, and then, underneath those 50 people, about 1,500 volunteers and leading the charge of all that, and then, of course, the thousands and thousands of people within the community that we were working with and sponsorships and all of this, yeah, lots of relationships.
• 7:20
  Speaker 2: It was so damn rewarding.
• 7:23
  Speaker 2: I loved it.
• 7:24
  Speaker 1: I loved it.
• 7:24
  Speaker 2: And that's probably why it came naturally to me, because I loved it.
• 7:28
  Speaker 2: We were really on a mission and we were really doing just life changing amazing things, not just within our community but nationwide and so forth, so that was super fun.
• 7:39
  Speaker 2: I've also had draft lawn clubs, running clubs.
• 7:43
  Speaker 2: I've coached a lot of athletes and then I've worked in these businesses different types of businesses, not just in endurance sports.
• 7:48
  Speaker 2: I come from sales and marketing.
• 7:51
  Speaker 2: I have a whole other background in the business sphere but I thrive in a team environment.
• 7:58
  Speaker 2: I don't have to be the leader even though I will admit I'm a damn good leader, I'm cool with owning that but I just love to be on a team of people who are really here to crush it High level, high performance, that kind of stuff and I get that.
• 8:16
  Speaker 2: It's not easy, it's complicated, it's messy and people have their personal struggles and sometimes they bring those into the work team environment, family environment, so forth.
• 8:27
  Speaker 2: I just love the mess of all that and getting in the face of those humans and really helping them work through it, because I had those experiences myself.
• 8:35
  Speaker 2: I got to develop myself in that way and those capacities and those variety of capacities, and that's why I think that I need to give that back.
• 8:45
  Speaker 2: I just need to be of service in that way.
• 8:48
  Speaker 2: I can't not be.
• 8:49
  Speaker 1: Well, organizations, communities, anybody leading a team, whether that's a family team or it's part of their company that they're building the entrepreneur at the top or a mid-level manager, any of that.
• 9:00
  Speaker 1: That's not just something that we wake up and know how to do.
• 9:05
  Speaker 1: It's something that you have.
• 9:06
  Speaker 1: I just wanted to not gloss over that when you described who you are, because it's such a bit important.
• 9:12
  Speaker 1: It's refreshing and rare.
• 9:16
  Speaker 2: I kind of take messy things and make them beautiful.
• 9:20
  Speaker 1: It's usually messy lives and bodies and dysfunction, yeah it doesn't bother me at all.
• 9:24
  Speaker 2: I can nail it.
• 9:25
  Speaker 2: But enough about me, my sister, let's talk about you.
• 9:28
  Speaker 2: Tell us a little bit about your story.
• 9:30
  Speaker 1: Well, yours just rolled off your tongue so beautifully.
• 9:33
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure my story is a succinct, but I will try to be succinct.
• 9:38
  Speaker 1: So I think what's interesting enough for this conversation is the background that's most recent and brought me to are working together and that's if I kind of work a little bit backwards was life coaching success coaching, hypnotherapist.
• 9:54
  Speaker 1: I studied a lot in how to, so I guess where that came from.
• 10:00
  Speaker 2: Actually, like you know, you can see the path going back.
• 10:03
  Speaker 2: How'd you get there?
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 10:05
  Speaker 1: So I was teaching entrepreneurship at a local women's business center, doing a lot of volunteering on the board for a nonprofit that helps people start running and grow their businesses, and as I taught these entrepreneurship classes year after year, I just saw that if people don't have the mindset right, it doesn't matter what you teach them and the skills and the hard skills and the oh yeah, advertise here and grow that and write a business plan and look at these finances and this is, but they could totally create dysfunction.
• 10:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah Well, if they don't feel good, it's not going to ever work.
• 10:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's what led me down the path to become a little bit of the life coaching, but it also was a tangential if we go back from there, so my sort of reawakening.
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: You talked about your breakdown and you know couch potato to ultra woman was.
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: I had been, you know, lingering 20 years.
• 10:59
  Speaker 1: You know, kind of in the closet with an eating disorder.
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: So at 14 started what's known as bulimia binging and purging behaviors that you know took over a lot of my life.
• 11:12
  Speaker 1: Bulimia is a very hidden eating disorder.
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: You know a lot of people.
• 11:17
  Speaker 1: You can be high functioning.
• 11:18
  Speaker 1: You know alcoholics can also be high functioning kind of addicts.
• 11:21
  Speaker 1: So there was 20 years where it was, you know, running in the background but quite front and center at the same time in my life.
• 11:29
  Speaker 2: Somehow you were still amazingly successful at business during all of this.
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: And that's just it.
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: So it was my emotional outlet right so the stresses, the you know not good enough with myself or my body, or did I do this, or you know whatever.
• 11:47
  Speaker 1: However I looked at things, it was my outlet right, and so I didn't learn the emotional skills, the life balancing skills, how, to quote, live, you know, a good life if you will, or you know, on the outside it looked like it was good, but there was a lot of secrecy of what I was hiding in the shame and the guilt, and that's very toxic, very toxic.
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: So, personal development workshop off I go.
• 12:12
  Speaker 1: You know, I tried a lot of things over those 20 years.
• 12:16
  Speaker 2: Didn't work and 20 years, 20 years, man, that's meanwhile, like hustling in the business world and really just making life happen in a very high level for high education, all of it.
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, mbas, you know, successful I wasn't.
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: Like you know chart, you know chart.
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: Topping, you know I wasn't, but it's definitely climbing that ladder and that's, I think, a lot of the pressure that I felt in the.
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: Silicon Valley bubble, growing up and living in that environment and startups and the Y2K and a little dating myself.
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: And then you know one of the things I think that parlays with who I am and who I've become in my life that leaving Silicon Valley was like.
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: The first start of that is.
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: You know I was.
• 13:03
  Speaker 1: You know the hard charging you know off I go to work.
• 13:08
  Speaker 1: You know, marching up my career ladder if you will.
• 13:11
  Speaker 1: And then I got the idea well, as you do in Silicon Valley, because it's so competitive, you know how am I going to compete with all these people?
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: Or you got to get the MBA.
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: Okay, well, I got to get the MBA.
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: Well, I come to find out that you know that was going to be nights and weekends and I found another route and that looked like moving outside of Silicon Valley, turn us quiet down in little nowhere California that I could get that MBA and rebuild my life.
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: And so I left a relationship, I left the six-figure job, I left the place.
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: I knew the environment, I knew the career, I knew all of that One of those like pack it up and put it in a new hall, because that show was broken.
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a lot of dysfunction in what looked like a seemingly good life, so that was one of first many reinventions you know, and so I kind of have reinvented numerous times.
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: That was, I think, 2003 or 2001,.
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: I moved there and then, you know, finally said no to the bulimia in 2003 and 2012.
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: I said no to some you know a marriage that wasn't working and I bought a motor home.
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: You talked about van life, so I was doing the van life thing before it was cool and still have that wonderful motor home.
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: Yes, we love her, yeah.
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: So now it's fast forward, and back to today is life coaching, success coaching.
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of other little things.
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: Dabbling in real estate?
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's another career.
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you've worked in a lot of different businesses in terms of being either a business coach also or just facilitating business growth, and that's one of the ways we met.
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: Well, and one thing I just want to say also, that is a little bit of our overlap that started to show up for me.
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: I don't quite remember how many years ago, but the I went from, you know, running half marathons and you know kind of sort of dabbling in athleticism, going to the gym but not being whatever, and then really stepping up and saying I want to do this thing.
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: And it actually started later in life, like in my 40s, if you will, and then so started running Spartan races, adventure races, triathlons, and then, you know, thanks to your help, dude, you were doing those crazy things.
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: Yes, and that's what we actually call them.
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: Okay, like I'm talking about walking through fire and being dropped off in the woods yes.
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: A lot of personal growth work yeah, but like the amount of psychological, mental, emotional work that had to transpire in those physically challenging moments.
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: Like that is the sweet sauce for you and I Talk about that for a minute.
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: Well, so one of the things I just wanted to touch on what you were saying is you know, I've spent probably $100,000 on my personal development in, you know, classes, workshops, boot camps bring it you know, doing walking over fire, walking over glass, jumping out of airplanes, jumping off, but you know all the things.
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: And then some sweet woo-woo stuff you know, like that has definitely been woven into my life.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: So you know part Joy Junkie adventurer, part Woo Woo Diva.
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: You know all that stuff.
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: And how we met, what do you recall?
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: Where was it we met?
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: Well, I know we met at a women's business function and you were the emcee that night.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: That was our initial meeting and you were hosting an event for an organization that you were working with, and I don't remember what the subject matter was, but I'm a female small business owner in the space, so I was there and I don't know.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: I think there was like 100 women or whatever.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: You were the emcee and somebody thought we should meet because they thought we might light the room on fire, which I'm pretty sure we did.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so we got to know each other.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: And then I was in the background, you know, volunteering for your crazy events.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: Love the starting line.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: 3 am for a whatever Exactly.
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm hosting an event for 5,000 athletes and 10,000 spectators and you rolled in at 3.30 in the morning and we're like let's go Earlier than that.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what are we doing today?
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: And then we've just been friends ever since then because we have such a healthy relationship.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: That is very complimentary.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: We're not the same at all, but we love so many of the same things, our energy.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: I keep saying it's a yin and yang experience that we have in this relationship.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: That's what it feels like, to me at least.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: And I think people that start to operate at higher and higher levels of mindset and capacity and athleticism and whatever you want to call it.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: You just gravitate to people that are at your level or higher.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: You hang out with eagles, you don't hang out with ducks.
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I call it the A team, right?
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: Like you want to surround yourself with 18 players, and you and I are in the business of creating environments where teams, organizations, humans can become 18 players in their own life or organization, and so we found each other in that way.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: That very high vibe energy is how we want to be living every day.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: We're not saying that it's easy and that every day we've got our game face on, but we're totally committed to the process, the journey and Super Bowl baby.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think when we first started so speaking about what is everyday awesome, what is the everyday awesome project, so we started putting our heads together about the way we like to play, and by play I mean that could be running a lot of miles that can be running off to Utah and going and serving in a project or something like that Running across the globe, which we both have done many times, also seeking an experience.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: Exactly exactly.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: We say yes to things, Polly.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: As we both have tipped the scale and we're into our second half of our life, if you will, and the finish line is getting closer than the start line.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: It's about legacy and giving back and creating meaning.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: We have a finite amount of time here, people right?
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Isn't that the truth?
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: If life is precious and it's a gift and everyday is, what are you investing yourself in?
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: How are you spending your time?
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: You're not spending your time.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Are you investing it?
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: We're choosing to invest in each other and choosing to invest in anyone listening to this that wants to step up and join the A team, join Team Awesome and be a part of that, or wants that for themselves.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: Maybe they don't know how to get there.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: Do that, what does that look like?
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: And this is a journey.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: We called it project for a reason.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: We didn't say it's done, finished.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: We realized we're works in progress and anybody that we talk to.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: Our mission in Everyday Awesome Project is to really help people find within themselves what their awesome is.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: And what is our tagline, what's our favorite line that we tell people?
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: Ooh, it's so good.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: I'm going to get a tattoo to my arm at some point, but I will.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: It's how your life feels is more important than how it looks.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: That literally embodies the movement.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: I want to add one more thing about investing what we're invested in, the way that we got to this point, that we could invest in each other and invest in humanity and be all in on this project together, is we invested in ourselves.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: And it took many years and I would say I mean, obviously I was on that journey since I was 30 of really like rebuilding body, mind, spirit, life, everything, 100% of the things.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: But once I hit the 5-0 mark, I was like double the hell down, girl, on my personal purpose.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: So I was fully invested in that point in my own strategies of self physical, mental, emotional, spiritual relationship, all of the things.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: But that was really a big pivot point for me to say, okay, am I really fulfilling this purpose?
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: I know I have, and how can I make sure that that's happening?
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: It also was like pandemic and all these other chaotic moments happened and I looked around in society and saw just this big wound, right, yeah, a lot of pain, a lot of suffering and knowing what my purpose is, knowing what your purpose is and how we share such deep values.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: For this, I mean, we both agree.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: The movement is now, the time is now.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think one of the things that you bring every day.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: You know you're so immersed in so many communities and cultures and environments out in the world and you see it at so many different levels.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: It's so because you see humans, the way that you see them you don't just feel them, I can't look away.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, even the crazy ones, and you know because you've been there.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: I mean not maybe to all of it.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: You know like.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: I totally can relate.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but you can relate to feeling broken, feeling brokenhearted, feeling you know not your best self, feeling like there's got to be something more.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I see them without the judgment and the labels and all this stuff, right, it's like, okay, that's a human back there.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: They might be acting a little strange out of sorts, but I see what I really see is their own potential that maybe they don't see and from all my years of coaching, that was always like my strongest belief system within my coaching modalities whether it was exercise, fitness coaching, etc.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: Or business coaching was I'm going to believe in that person more than they believe in themselves, because 100% the potential is there, but they have lost sight of themselves, right.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: And that's really I find in my coaching that I've done as well, as sometimes someone needs to lean on their coaches belief in them.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, until they have it within themselves.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then they start to take those steps.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: You know like we're, you and I are always an invitation for what's possible.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: You know and we have it in ourselves.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: You know we look up like we should share about the conversation we had on our hike this weekend where you're like, yeah, I'm going to run this 100 miler and just kind of show up new years baby, and then you're like, wait no.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: Did.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: I just say casually I was going to go run on your mouth.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: The hell with that.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: I was giving myself permission for a hot second to just be sort of cavalier about something epic and I'm not saying that I'm amazing, it's epic, I'm going to do it.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: I was like hold up, samantha.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: I called myself on the carpet for going hey, I'm going to do this thing.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: I've committed to do what I want to do it.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: Am I all in?
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: And then I was like I need to go all in because this is how I do life.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: So I'm going to challenge myself.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: No one else cares what the hell is happening with this thing.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was giving myself a serious talking to and having a self coaching moment, and I made a commitment to myself to PR my fastest 100 miler.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: Because why not?
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: Why not really go there, show up fully and see what I've got and deliver the goods.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Now it could all go terribly wrong and I'm perfectly okay with that.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: I'm good faced down in the dirt.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: I got this Like.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: This is not my first rodeo in the dirt, so if that transpires, it's all good.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: I will still laugh my ass off in the end, but I'm going to show up and drop the hammer and see what happens only because I want to do that for myself.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: No one else is requesting that of me.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like what if in six months from now, you get a?
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: You know a document that says, like you got a certain amount of time here.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: I know A diagnosis comes back and yeah, what if this is my last 100 miler?
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: You know, I remember reading or someone talking about like, or last race period you get into the second half or you don't remember when the last it was your last time.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: You usually don't take it, you don't fully appreciate it.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so we go into each and every opportunity, whether it's a phone call with a loved one.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: It's an opportunity to go be with someone a hike with a friend be with a walk with the dog be our best in a race or drop the hammer and some crazy yeah.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: What if it was my last race?
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: That's how would you feel about looking back and going?
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: I just barely showed up and just went through the motions.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: That's all it was.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: That's all I did.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: Scratch not happen now.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think the other thing that I want to say about anyone listening to this, that we were clear about and I think you'll see as our episodes are released, is there's a lot of podcasts out there that we listen to and we're inspired by I mean there are freaking amazing.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: I'm a super fan.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, amazing humans doing amazing things, amazing podcasts, and we love it, love it, love it.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: And we said to ourselves yeah, and there's awesome everywhere.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm, it was like, okay, just because somebody's a best seller or Olympic, this or number one, that yeah.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: I mean, you and I look around our life now and we bump into people Every day.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Yes, so we were.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: It happened to be a holiday.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: It was a holiday and we are riding our bikes and there was a young man, all by himself, all by himself, in the middle of the park, throwing sandbags, raising the gauntlet.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: Doing burpees, Throwing it down on himself.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: We beeline the hell over to that guy.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: I was like that is our new best friend, I'm like that is every day awesome.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: He was embodying it.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and we want to embody it and we want our audience, our listeners, to become team members and literally embody it, because we feel like that's what's possible for any and all and we want to help facilitate that.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: To be clear, that's why we're here.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: It's a mission and a movement.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: You know it's more of him, more of people, and it doesn't have to look like that physical crazy, you know, like it's.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: You know, if you doesn't have to look like everybody's awesome is different, right, right, you know your awesome is 100 miles and doing your best at it and somebody else's might be their first 5k.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: And it might not even be a physical challenge no.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it could be, you know, putting themselves on a dating app when they've been single for a long time, or whatever, yeah, except I would say.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: One thing that's different about our coaching programs and opportunities are that we do have a physical aspect.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: We do have a mental, emotional aspect.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: We do understand that humans are integrated beings and they're not separate entities.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: Your brain health is not separate from your body health, and it's not just how we choose to live our life.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: However people want to utilize their body and brains we're all about that, but we do believe that the health of one affects the health of the other, and so our program is very much in sync with ways that people can learn about that and develop in that way as well.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: And I think we would say you know, the thing is almost easy sometimes to say what we're not.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: So, you know we're not the flashy show that is about, you know, only having the best of the best entrepreneurs or superstars that you know everybody's heard of and they're, you know celebrities.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: We don't do celebrities like that no, but everyday awesome people, yes, and as you said, we're not interested in I mean we would.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: We support people and we believe in them.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: You know, having awesome businesses and stuff.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: Sure, you can become a celebrity.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, but, as you said, it would have a physical component to it.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: It's really important to us that people understand that their life is holistic not just materialistic, you know, and, as we said, it's not just the looking good, it's the feeling good that we're all about, and if you're not in a body that feels good, then it doesn't matter how good it looks.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: And we are into humans all shapes, colors, sizes, diversity, diversity.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: The more interesting the process is, the more fun we enjoy, we are, yeah, we're just gravitating out there right.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: And we hope that we can create a space that they feel welcome with us.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: You know what we're really looking for as we move forward in this journey of ours, and we hope you'll connect with us.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: You know, team Awesome is, as we said, a movement.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: It is something that you know we're building coaching and programs for, but it also live experiences.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: Live.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: Oh my God, we're going to be with people, no way.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: Hell, yes, okay, I can't wait.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Only and always.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know so, connecting with us on the popular social channels.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, we hope you'll follow us, we hope you'll friend us, we hope you'll join us.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: I predict that we'll be having.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: How do they join the team?
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: Well, on our website you can sign up.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: You can sign up for the updates that way.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: So if you want to like get an email and I think we'll have a way eventually to have texting of people, that's probably more well suited.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: The social is one way.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: You know we, absolutely we do our own social and all of that, and you know, staying in touch with us.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: You know, like we are human beings, we want to stay connected with people.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: There's no media filters.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: You know we're not.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: I want people to DM me.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: I'm a totally weird like that.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: I know People are.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: You always hear people like ugh but we do do our own social and we are there on the other end and I want to hear from people and I know you do too because that's how we will start to develop our podcast themes and topics.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: Programs will develop based on real needs of real humans out in this space, and so we have to hear from them.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: And you know we would welcome invitations from you.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: So if you need a speaker, if you need a program, if you've got a team that's not working, if you've got a body that's breaking down, you know we're absolutely happy to have that?
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: Oh, we're showing up, yeah.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: All the things, and we have an invitation for you.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Right, so I think our invitation to anyone listening to this it sounds like what you know it's about.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: what does their life look like when it's awesome, yeah.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: So you know what, if you had an everyday awesome project and you were the project?
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: You are the project, by the way, Note to self you're the project, so would now be a good time to get up to looking for and finding your awesome in every day.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: Say yes to being the project.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: I mean.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: They're all worth it and I know that they all want it.
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: So we look forward to connecting with you.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: We look forward to if this sounded like something and then we sound like awesome people that you want to listen, to Join the team, join the team.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: Join team awesome.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: Stay in touch with us and we look forward to seeing you in real world.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, All right, and remember beautiful humans.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: How your life feels is more important than how it looks.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: And every day is your opportunity to find your awesome.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: Let's do it yeah.